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Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 17, 2016 a radio interview
The Orlando shooter used "a weapon of war."
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • July 1, 2016
David A. Clarke Jr.
David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech
"Doctors kill about 250,000 people a year in botched surgeries."  
False
June 29, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 3, 2016 a tweet
"Despite the rhetoric from Democrat politicians, more people are employed this year than at any point in the history of Wisconsin."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • June 27, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 19, 2016 an interview
"People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles."  
Mostly True
June 24, 2016
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on June 3, 2016 a speech
Says Ron Johnson referred to "The Lego Movie" as an "insidious anti-business conspiracy."
Half-True
By Eric Litke • June 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 26, 2016 a fundraising letter
Says Russ Feingold’s "campaign is powered by small-dollar contributions like ours."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • June 22, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 13, 2016 an interview
"Assault rifles already are banned."
Mostly False
June 20, 2016
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on June 3, 2016 a speech
The average student debt "coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is something like 28,000 dollars."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • June 17, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 14, 2016 a tweet
American colleges amount to a "cartel."  
Mostly False
By Cara Lombardo • June 16, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 8, 2016 an interview
On his support for Donald Trump.
Half Flip
June 14, 2016
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on May 4, 2016 a radio ad
Says Ron Johnson voted to turn Medicare "into a voucher program."
Mostly True
June 10, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 a radio interview
Since 1978, college "tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation."
True
By Sarah Hauer • June 9, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 27, 2016 a town hall at Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service
"Under (Obamacare), you can’t reward a person for better behavior. You can’t have incentives to be healthier."
Half-True
By Eric Litke • June 8, 2016
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on May 26, 2016 a an online opinion-piece
"The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades."
True
By Cara Lombardo • June 3, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 a radio interview
The University of Wisconsin System had a "jobs-for-life tenure program" for professors.
Half-True
By Cara Lombardo • June 3, 2016
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on April 1, 2016 a constituent newsletter
"Today, it is more difficult to enlist in the U.S. military than it is to enroll in college."  
Half-True
June 1, 2016
Vicki Martin
Vicki Martin
stated on May 12, 2016 a presentation at a panel discussion
Only 50 percent of students from Milwaukee public high schools "go on to a two-or four-year college."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • May 27, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 an interview
"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."  
Mostly True
May 25, 2016
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on May 11, 2016 a teleconference
Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average --  would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined."
True
May 20, 2016
Wisconsin Jobs Now
Wisconsin Jobs Now
stated on April 28, 2016 a Facebook posting.
Says Demond Means, "turnaround district" superintendent for Milwaukee Public Schools, said the district "needs to be gutted."
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • May 18, 2016
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